The Oscars 2016 | 88th Academy Awards (Official Thread)

[FlyRy]

Leonardo datoscardoe

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

The Revenant was good. Not classic. But good.

 

[wire28]

I'm behind on New Releases. But just going over the best picture nominations in the link in the OP, I've seen "Mad Max" & "The Martian". I plan on seeing "The Revenant". And I haven't decided if I want to watch "The Big Short" & "Spotlight" yet.

It's a decent year to me. Mad Max was good but not great. The Martian was boring. Spotlight was boring. Haven't seen the big short. The Revenant was the best.

 

[FlyRy]

Brutally Honest Oscar Ballot: Voter Skewers 'Revenant' ("Road Runner Movie"), 'Brooklyn' ("Sentimental Drivel")

@pickles touchin himself to this. Pause

 

[MartyMcFly]

Brutally Honest Oscar Ballot: Voter Skewers 'Revenant' ("Road Runner Movie"), 'Brooklyn' ("Sentimental Drivel")

@pickles touchin himself to this. Pause

Reading this, I'm reminded of my real issue with the oscars. I don't like that there are voters who don't see shyt. He admitted there are several joints he didn't see and how can you be an informed voter if you didn't see the movies? I'd feel better about him saying he didn't like what he saw rather than just admitting he didn't see a flick

 

[pickles]

Brutally Honest Oscar Ballot: Voter Skewers 'Revenant' ("Road Runner Movie"), 'Brooklyn' ("Sentimental Drivel")

@pickles touchin himself to this. Pause

For real though, he not going to win. That movie has gotten no buzz.

To be honest, I haven't even seen the Danish Girl.

I am stanning someone new.

Domhnall Gleeson - IMDb




Dude was in 3 Oscar nominated movies this year, and even in the biggest one.

The Revenant
Ex machina
Brooklyn

and Star Wars

He is winning the Oscar, just you watch.

 

[Da King]

not going to watch a ceremony worshipping cacs

 

[FlyRy]

Reading this, I'm reminded of my real issue with the oscars. I don't like that there are voters who don't see shyt. He admitted there are several joints he didn't see and how can you be an informed voter if you didn't see the movies? I'd feel better about him saying he didn't like what he saw rather than just admitting he didn't see a flick

Agreed breh. The year 12 years win many voters admitted they hadn't seen it.

How can someone in the industry not have seen mad max? Came out in theaters 9 months ago and bluray 5 months ago and i know he got a fukking screener

For real though, he not going to win. That movie has gotten no buzz.

If you truly believe this then you just haven't been paying attention :Jimmy:

 

[MartyMcFly]

Agreed breh. The year 12 years win many voters admitted they hadn't seen it.

How can someone in the industry not have seen mad max? Came out in theaters 9 months ago and bluray 5 months ago and i know he got a fukking screener



If you truly believe this then you just haven't been paying attention :Jimmy:

Yeah I don't get it. I mean I understand a lot of these cats are in the industry and don't have time but there was that flippant response in the reporter or EW a month ago where one guy said "who has time to watch all this with Making a Murderer on?" word? Watching something on netflix that's not going away anytime soon is stopping you from doing something that you should take very seriously? There's a reason people in the industry take this shyt seriously and its because it opens the door for more opportunity. Ava Duvernay is about to direct a fantasy movie with Disney and of course a lot of that has to do with not only her skill with Selma, but her movie getting oscar nominated and having people take notice. It opens doors. And cats seemingly act like it's nothing to be serious about

 

[RajWatts]

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/how-the-academy-is-prepping-for-an-oscarssowhite-164216826.html

How the Academy Is Prepping for an #OscarsSoWhite Oscars Night

The conversation and media coverage about the lack of minority inclusiveness at the Academy Awards — and, by extension, in Hollywood more generally — has been the lead headline of this Oscars season. Expect it to be the lead headline of Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony as well.

A new Los Angeles Times story recaps the ripple effect that the #OscarsSoWhite controversy has had on the usual statuette campaign cycle and raises some interesting issues about how it could affect the big event.

The piece says that some academy members, frustrated by the organization’s recently enacted measures to inject more diversity into the voting body, might not attend this year and may even have opted not to vote.

“I don’t want to go,” says one unidentified academy member. “I don’t want to be in the room when Chris Rock tries to be funny about something that is not funny.”

If a few academy members don’t show up at the Dolby Theatre, those of us watching at home probably won’t notice. But if a sizable group truly abstained from turning in their ballots before Tuesday’s deadline, that could have some impact on the winner, particularly in the Best Picture race, which is more up in the air than it’s been in at least a decade.

The unnamed academy member is also right about Rock: He’s likely going to address the issue of race right up front, in his opening monologue. While that may make some people uncomfortable, it’s an enormous opportunity for the comedian to make a statement.

As Bill Carter wrote in a column earlier this week for the Hollywood Reporter: “[Rock] is a smart, experienced performer with a well-established point of view on the topic of race and Hollywood — and he surely knows a cultural moment when he sees one. The urge to say something that makes some noise may be inescapable.”

Rock’s presence and all the race-related brouhaha may also work in the telecast’s favor. Last year, Oscars ratings were down 18 percent and viewership hit a six-year low. Even if the masses aren’t all that pumped about the nominated movies, some may tune in just to hear what Rock has to say.

As comedian Jeff Ross, who has written for the Oscars in the past, told Carter: “I can’t remember the last time I was this excited to watch an awards show.” We’ll find out on Sunday if other people feel the same way.

 

[FlyRy]

It amuses me how much vitriol The Revenant and Inarritu inspire among film twitter and the critics

The Revenant Is Going to Be the Worst Movie to Win Best Picture Since, Uh, Birdman


:inarritu:

 

[TheGodling]

It amuses me how much vitriol The Revenant and Inarritu inspire among film twitter and the critics

The Revenant Is Going to Be the Worst Movie to Win Best Picture Since, Uh, Birdman


:inarritu:

Dude must be onto something though if he shyts on Birdman.

 

[MartyMcFly]

I read an interesting article in the Washington Post this morning.

The staggering numbers that prove Hollywood has a serious race problem

It's a really good read that definitely everyone here should read, but it also gets back to the point of the academy being out of touch and just the fact that the "nominating process" is stupid and, as Vigo Mortensen said, is "a racket" but it also, once again, points out that people aren't watching the damn movies. You got Rod Lurie trying to talk about Straight Outta Compton to his director colleagues who are in the academy with him and yet none of them saw it and the only guy who tried to watch it cut it off because it was too loud.

Also this:

“Racism is a big problem in this country, but a lot of this can not be attributed to simply race: That’s a very lazy analysis,” said Gil Robertson, co-founder of the African American Film Critics Association. “This is a town of serial copycats. It’s a business: This town is open to do business. And now that they’ve seen these films can make money, can make a good return on investment, they’re going to jump on that boat.”

Only color that matters is green, always, all the time.

 

[ciubaca]

It amuses me how much vitriol The Revenant and Inarritu inspire among film twitter and the critics

The Revenant Is Going to Be the Worst Movie to Win Best Picture Since, Uh, Birdman


:inarritu:

Revenant is the best movie on that list and it will probably win best pic. I have to agree about birdman tho, that movie was boring as fukk
Lots of eh movies have won best picture
Shakespeare in love
Chicago
Dances with wolves (dope movie) but over Goodfellas
Rocky
crash

 

[Mr210]

I haven't seen any of the nominated movies besides mad Max. I will be watching walking dead and talking dead. I will tune in to see the monologue by Chris Rock though